Derek Sprague on Ryder Cup security procedures dealing with fans | Golf Central | Golf Channel

Why Golf Planning Broken and How We Fixed It.

Every year, 12 million U.S. golfers travel to play in tournaments, yet the experience of planning for the trip is the opposite of enjoyable. With more than 100,000 golf events held annually and no central platform to search them all, players and families spend an average of 4.7 hours researching and planning every single tournament.

The result: 65% of tournament golfers report dissatisfaction with current planning resources—leading to frustration, wasted money, wasted time, and missed deadlines.

Hubble.GOLF solves all of these challenges. Launching today, the new all-in-one platform unites tournament discovery, travel booking, budgeting, and team coordination into a single, seamless experience.

Hubble Makes Golf Planning Easier for Everyone Involved in Competitive Golf.

  1. Parents of Junior Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps parents of junior golfers create itineraries, organize travel, build a smart budget, and track their child’s development all in one place.
  2. Adult Amateur Golfers
    Hubble.GOLF helps adult amateur golfers locate events that fit their schedule, score the best deals on tournament hotels, and stay on budget.
  3. Golf Coaches and Instructors
    Hubble.GOLF helps golf coaches and instructors coordinate team schedules and logistics with ease, communicate with players and parents, search for tournaments, and track player development.
  4. Tournament Directors and Organizers
    Hubble.GOLF helps tournament directors and organizers do away with outdated planning methods, ensure smooth registration, and gain access to a larger, more connected community of players and fans.

Everything You Need, All in One Place

1. Comprehensive Tournament Discovery

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2. Intelligent Itinerary Planning

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Parents managing multiple junior golf schedules will especially appreciate having all tournament information centralized in one place. Share schedules with coaches, family members, or carpool partners with ease. You can view travel time between events, helping you plan realistic schedules that don’t leave players exhausted before they even reach the first tee.

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3. Integrated Travel & Booking

Why visit multiple websites to plan one tournament trip? Book hotels directly through Hubble, often with exclusive discounts negotiated specifically for our golf community. We’ve partnered with major travel providers to make tournament travel simpler.

As we continue to expand our travel integration features, we’re working to add flight and rental car booking capabilities, along with enhanced preference tracking to make your tournament travel planning even more seamless.

4. Cash Caddie: Your Financial Command Center

Tournament golf can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be mysterious. Our Cash Caddie feature helps you track expenses, monitor budgets, and even calculate mileage for tax purposes. Finally, you’ll have clear visibility into the true cost of competitive golf.

For junior golf families making significant investments in their young athlete’s development, this transparency is invaluable. Track everything from entry fees and travel costs to equipment expenses and coaching investments. Generate reports for tax preparation, college scholarship applications, or simply understanding where your tournament budget actually goes. Set spending limits by category and receive alerts before you exceed them.

5. A Community That Gets It

Connect with other golfers, parents, and coaches who understand the unique challenges of tournament life. Share course-specific insights, get advice on navigating college golf recruitment, compare notes on training approaches, and build relationships that extend far beyond the 18th hole.

Our community features include tournament-specific discussion threads where players share local knowledge about courses, lodging recommendations from families who’ve been there before, and even carpooling coordination for regional events. For junior golf development, parents can connect with others at similar stages of the journey, sharing both the victories and the valuable lessons learned along the way.

Built by Golfers, for Golfers

Our team includes competitive players, tournament parents, and coaches who’ve experienced every scenario you can imagine. We’ve missed registration deadlines, booked hotels in the wrong city, and showed up to tournaments unprepared. Those painful lessons became the foundation for every feature in Hubble.

We didn’t just build software – we solved problems we’ve actually lived. Every feature exists because someone on our team has a story about needing exactly that tool at exactly the wrong moment. That lived experience shapes not just what our golf tournament platform does, but how it works and what it prioritizes.

What's Coming Next?

This launch is just the beginning. Over the coming months, you’ll see expanded tournament coverage, enhanced community features, and tools that make competitive golf even more accessible. We’re exploring partnerships with golf academies, junior golf organizations, club manufacturers, and tournament organizers to create an even richer ecosystem.

Features in development include performance tracking tools that help players identify strengths and improvement areas across multiple tournaments, enhanced coach collaboration tools for team management, and integration with popular golf GPS and stat-tracking apps. We’re also working on scholarship resource centers specifically for families navigating the junior golf to college golf pathway.

Most importantly, we’re listening. Your feedback drives our roadmap, and every feature request gets serious consideration from our development team. As competitive golfers and tournament parents ourselves, we know the platform is never truly “finished” – it evolves as the needs of the competitive golf community evolve.

Join the Revolution

Competitive golf has been stuck in the past for too long. Scattered information, manual processes, and disconnected systems have made tournament golf harder than it needs to be. Hubble changes that equation.

Whether you’re a junior golfer chasing college scholarships, a parent managing multiple kids’ tournament schedules, or a coach working with an entire team, our golf tournament platform was built with your specific challenges in mind. We understand the unique demands of competitive golf because we live them alongside you.

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Welcome to Hubble.GOLF. Welcome to the future of competitive golf.

Ready to get started? Sign up for your free Hubble account today and discover what organized tournament golf feels like.

Have questions about Hubble or ideas for future features? We’d love to hear from you. Connect with our team through the community section or reach out directly – we read every message and we’re genuinely excited to hear how we can make this golf tournament platform even better for you.

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PGA of America CEO Derek Sprague joins Golf Central to lay out the security procedures at the Ryder Cup and the responses to heckling fans throughout the event. #Golf #RyderCup #PGAofAmerica #BethpageBlack
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24 Comments

  1. @michaelangelel3136
    @michaelangelel3136 on October 1, 2025 at 9:44 am

    This is a masterclass in demonstrating the difference between what real leadership is, and someone appointed to a leadership position. If you want your business to fail, do this…

    Reply
  2. @chrisbevan6099
    @chrisbevan6099 on October 1, 2025 at 9:47 am

    Ceo, get a f'n haircut and stop talking trumpi B's..the enemy within 😅

    Reply
  3. @ianghall
    @ianghall on October 1, 2025 at 10:53 am

    History will recall this Ryder cup for the disgraceful behaviour of the Americans. The organisers are most to blame. By appointing Heather McMahan to over the loudspeakers drum up the crowd to chant “fuck you Rory” on the first tee, gave the instruction to the mob that hate chants against Europeans was both acceptable and encouraged to help USA win by foul means.
    Bryson DeChambeau also was guilty. Justin Rose made a perfectly reasonable comment when DeChambeau’s caddie was interfering with his putt. Rose simply asked “it is my putt, right? Bryson then seized the opportunity to drum up more more hate against his opponents to try to cheat his way to victory.
    We have heard token apologies from Americans, but if they genuinely are sorry, USA should offer to hold the 2029 Ryder cup on neutral territory. This is what happens in other sports so why not golf?

    Reply
  4. @Richardgwilliams
    @Richardgwilliams on October 1, 2025 at 10:59 am

    Mr Sprague I hope you can pop over to Ireland in two years time and see how a Civilised Country runs the Ryder Cup.

    Reply
  5. @cebri_
    @cebri_ on October 1, 2025 at 11:00 am

    The PGA of A is a trash organization, never issued an apology and justified the crowd behavior saying “the same thing happened at Rome” , which is a blatant lie.

    Reply
  6. @hiball-pv1
    @hiball-pv1 on October 1, 2025 at 11:30 am

    Just make the venue Dry County, so all the freaking drunkards can stay home! LOL

    Reply
  9. @jeanhorn8891
    @jeanhorn8891 on October 1, 2025 at 11:56 am

    What are you taking about.
    Swiftly,3 days of abuse that's swiftly.
    Booing,throwing a bottle at Rory's wife,
    Constantly shouting things that have no place in golf.
    Rory was also called a fag.t…
    Two European players were abused because of their weight,one called telly tubby and another to take Ozempic.
    Where was the USA team intervention.
    USA are not the only team that takes pride,that's the issue,what makes USA so special.
    Enough the behaviour was disgusting
    I should know Scotland invented golf,not in that form it's called respect.
    Banter is different from abuse

    Reply
  10. @tomwhite3271
    @tomwhite3271 on October 1, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Total deflection. The message here is the PGA wants the future of golf to be like the Waste Management Tournament and not like the Masters. Fortunately, the overwhelming disapproval from the actual golf community shows that they will not stand for this. Derek Sprague said he has experience with the last nine Ryder Cups, that, alone, is enough reason to get rid of him.

    Reply
  11. @weaslemanatu
    @weaslemanatu on October 1, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    A solution as clear as mud! Sprague should get into politics, they can't make a decision either.

    Reply
  12. @JanHellqvist
    @JanHellqvist on October 1, 2025 at 12:35 pm

    Dear PGA of America. If you have an MC who from the start lead a chant of "F**K Rory", you don't get a pass for fan behaviour.

    Reply
  13. @markandre-ll
    @markandre-ll on October 1, 2025 at 1:19 pm

    The U.S. players have not spoken out on the crowd behaviour. Pretty sad

    Reply
  14. @YUBSOMEAN
    @YUBSOMEAN on October 1, 2025 at 1:19 pm

    Not a small number of fans that crossed the line.! The abuse was constant. Passion on both sides of the Atlantic but boorish personal insults and jeering as players are about to swing it not expressing passion. if they dont understand that then this will happen again!🧐

    Reply
  15. @markandre-ll
    @markandre-ll on October 1, 2025 at 1:21 pm

    I doubt it was a small number of fans. Great talking point

    Reply
  16. @brettallan7417
    @brettallan7417 on October 1, 2025 at 1:22 pm

    That PGA CEO is a weak gutted individual who obviously accepts no responsibility for the disgraceful behavior of the fans, that disgusting MC chanting F… You Rory over the microphone or the pathetic attempts by Bethpage to control the crowds and allow the European players the opportunity to play their shots. You had Rory McIlroy refusing to continue play until the crowd noise abated so he could continue. You also had someone throwing a can/bottle which struck Rory's wife. That is a sure sign of a complete coward. Overall, the American crowd got what they deserved – a loss of the Ryder Cup. Go Europe – I wish you much success.
    P.S. The US should keep Keegan Bradley as your captain for many years – this will guarantee Europe many more successful campaigns.

    Reply
  17. @stdre
    @stdre on October 1, 2025 at 1:22 pm

    „… from a handful of fans!“ embarrassing statement!!

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  18. @starter4ten808
    @starter4ten808 on October 1, 2025 at 1:37 pm

    This was a disgusting display by 'fans' I've been around golf my entire life, I've never seen anything like what I saw last weekend. The abuse of the players was one thing, and it was bad BUT one of the players wives had a beer can thrown at her! In Europe that would be classed as assault and video footage would've been analysed and the culprit arrested by now. What's next a shooting at a golf event?

    Reply
  19. @karendargo4631
    @karendargo4631 on October 1, 2025 at 1:54 pm

    It was all drunk men. I was there and saw with my own to eyes.

    Reply
  20. @55rhill
    @55rhill on October 1, 2025 at 2:49 pm

    Your opinion is worthless. The PGA needs to dump NBC and their horrible announcers and incessant commercials that interrupted the flow of the tournament and caused shots to be missed and not seen when they occurred. Rory is a disgusting jerk who causes fans to heckle him. Then the little bastard exaggerated it by giving fans the finger.

    Reply
  21. @johnnylong8821
    @johnnylong8821 on October 1, 2025 at 3:07 pm

    Clearly this guy failed to uphold the integrity of the event. Not good enough, he should have apologized to the fans and players.

    Reply
  22. @Pickle_Golf
    @Pickle_Golf on October 1, 2025 at 4:47 pm

    I feel like this is a Trump inspired video.  Where reality does’t match the words.

    “We dealt with this quickly and swiftly”

    Bullshit. Have you banned any of these fans from future events? Arrested anyone for the beer can throw? Removed Bethpage from hosting future events?

    Reply
  23. @courageousknight
    @courageousknight on October 1, 2025 at 4:58 pm

    PGA of America. You failed to manage the small minority of jerks in the crowd and allowed ongoing verbal abuse of not just players but their family members not to mention the beer thrown at and hitting Rory’s wife. PGA leadership you stink. Absolute shameful moments in golf. What an F-ing embarrassment. Entire PGA “leadership” team should be fired!

    Reply
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